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Tokyo
“Wabi-sabi” (侘寂): Imperfection, incompleteness and impermanence in organizational life
Standing conference on organisational symbolism (SCOS conference)
Wabi-sabi is an approach to life based on accepting the transience and imperfection of the world. As a Japanese aesthetic derived from Buddhism, wabi-sabi embraces the wisdom that comes from perceiving beauty in impermanence and incompleteness. What might such advocacy of the harmony to found in the flawed, faulty, and weathered have to do with formal organisations, obsessed as they seemingly are with continually striving for perfection? The very ideal of perfection, as an antithesis of wabi-sabi, is embedded in managerial efforts as diverse as striving for continuous improvement, setting “stretch” targets, managing the performance of ideal employees, promoting organizational cultures of excellence, and even the romanticized perfect bodies of employees.
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Holon | Bordeaux
Street signage in urban Africa and Israel/Palestine
Memories, identities, politics
The exhibition will examine street signage in urban Africa and Israel/Palestine as an outcome of dialectic processes, short and long termed, of spatial production and attached imagery and symbolism. That is, beyond being a signifier of a spatial orientation per se.
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Kuwait City
Call for papers - Urban studies
Urban Images and Imaginaries: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula through their representations
Arabian Humanities Journal, n.11 - Special issue
Four years after a special issue of Arabian Humanities tackled the subject of cities and urban dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula, the present call for papers aims to take another look at the specific urban forms of the region, this time through the lens of the images and imaginaries of the city.
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Beirut
Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources
During the four-day programme we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, but postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at local, provincial and imperial levels. We concentrate mainly on materials from the 16th and 20th centuries, but welcome also explorations into earlier archives.
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Istanbul
International migration in the XXIst century–II
The second conference organized by the Research Center of Global Education and Culture of Yeditepe University will be conducted on the theme “International Migration in the XXIst century” with the participation of academicians and international migration specialists. The conference will take place on the 10-11 October 2017, in the Yeditepe University in Istanbul.
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Guangzhou
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
Urban China and the challenges of sustainability
Medium conference
This is the second international event organised in the context of the Medium project. While research conducted in the context of the project focus primarily on the medium-sized cities Hangzhou, Zhuhai and Datong, the conference will consider urban China in its diversity, with a great variety of case studies including Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, the region of the Taihu lake etc. It will address the issue of sustainability from a broad perspective, tackling ageing housing, social inclusion, urban governance, environmental sustainability, participatory processes in urban planning, with a multi-disciplinary approach ranging from geography, political science, economy, sociology, computer science, environmental science, etc.
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Tokyo
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
The literary motifs of ethnology
Les sciences humaines et sociales sont nées en se séparant progressivement des belles-lettres. Pourtant, littérature et ethnologie ont parfois suivi des chemins très proches. Elles ont été, à plusieurs reprises, des sources d’inspiration l’une pour l’autre. L’objectif de ce colloque est de réunir des ethnologues, des historiens et des littéraires pour réfléchir aux liens qu’ont entretenus et qu’entretiennent ces deux disciplines en France et au Japon. L’exercice de la comparaison permettra d’ouvrir de nouvelles pistes de réflexion et de mieux comprendre la constitution des disciplines académiques telles qu’on les distingue aujourd’hui.
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Tel Aviv | Paris
Call for papers - Representation
Beginnings, Genesis and Creation in the Art of the VXth and XVIth Centuries
This conference seeks to introduce a variety of different approaches and interpretations of the concept of “origins” within the visual arts during the Renaissance. However, to consider the question of origins necessitates establishing a distinction between an original beginning such as the creation of the world, an event which initiated historical time, and the symbolic exercises of re-creation that follow it. These phenomena of echo or aemulatio are defined by their manifest desire to capture the primal energy of the original beginning. Such re-creations attempt to reproduce the vitality inherent in the original beginning, and are characterized, above all, by a fundamental desire to reestablish a link to an ideal and initial origin.
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Yogyakarta
Indonesian Exceptionalism: Values and Morals of the Middle Ground
‘Exceptionalism’ is a borrowed political term that implies that a country or entity is somehow special. Indonesia is not small. Indonesia is not poor in cultures, religions, society, or ethnic groups. Indonesia is not unimportant economically, regionally, or politically. Historically, Indonesia has always been an exceptional place. Indonesia as ‘imagined community’ continues to be an ongoing process. Various questions that can be raised include: What are relevant Indonesian values and morals for maintaining Indonesia’s competitiveness in the global world? What is religion’s contribution to forming agreed values and ethics? To what extent is there an Indonesian contribution in balancing Islamic values and democratic practices? How do religious values impact the ethics of state governance?
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Abu Dhabi
Conference, symposium - History
This conference is an international symposium that proposes to study the entire range of exchanges and relations established between these two areas during the Early Modern Times (1500-1820). Its main objective is to think about diplomatic, economic, religious and cultural links between Europe and the Middle East by calling upon over twenty researchers with specializations in the Arab, Persian and Muslim world. In addition, this conference will provide a comprehensive overview to date of the Arabian Gulf at a time of major political change, including the successive arrival of the European “trading empires”. It will focus on some of the methodological challenges raised by a global, connected and cross-cultural thinking approach to the History of the Middle East and Europe”.
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Byblos
Call for papers - Urban studies
Towards the globalisation of urban anti-globalisation?
La mondialisation des normes néo-libérales dans l’espace urbain semble être un processus irréversible. Dans le domaine foncier, par exemple, des politiques volontaristes sont proposées pour intégrer le foncier des quartiers informels – territoires peu connectés au marché – dans le système capitaliste mondial en vue de transformer ce « capital mort » en « capital vivant » (De Sotto, 2000).
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Tokyo
African presence - towards new political and cultural perspectives
Identities, memoirs and resistance between Africa, Europe and the Americas from colonialisation to post-colonialisation
Ce projet de recherche porte sur la revue littéraire et culturelle « noire » Présence Africaine, créée par le sénégalais Alioune Diop en 1947 et qui continue d’être publiée jusqu’à nos jours. En tant que revue majeure de l’intelligentsia « noire », elle a joué un rôle politique et culturel particulièrement important dans la période de la décolonisation autour des années 1950.
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Byblos
Call for papers - Urban studies
How globalisation is transforming cities?
Organisées par l'Institut d'urbanisme de l'Alba - université de Balamand - les 19e rencontres de l'APERAU 2017 se dérouleront du 21 au 26 Mai au Liban dans la ville de Byblos. La thématique principale portera sur le rôle de la mondialisation / globalisation dans la transformation des villes. Pour conduire cette exploration, nous proposons six entrées thématiques : les nouvelles centralités, les normes mondiales et les systèmes d'ajustement, les modèles et les logiques d'investissement, le rôle des objets métropolitains iconiques, le patrimoine et la mondialisation, et finalement le tourisme urbain et la mondialisation.
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Marmagao
Since 1998 the “Association des jeunes études indiennes” (AJEI) organizes an annual workshop in India with the support of international and local partners. This year, we propose a three-day event in Goa to debate the question of the “commons” in contemporary South-Asia. The workshop will be structured around different thematic sessions with the presentations of the works of the participants, a field visit and an open discussion on fieldwork methods. One of the main objective of the event is to give the opportunity to the participants to exchange on their works and their experience, to get feedbacks from senior researchers and to build relationships, reinforcing thus the strong international network of researchers on South Asia.
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Tokyo
The construction of contemporary Japanese cities - Ebisu journal no.55 (2018)
Revue « Ebisu », n°55 (2018)
L’ambition de ce numéro d’Ebisu est de porter un regard renouvelé sur ce qui fait ville, sur qui fait la ville et comment se façonne l’espace urbain dans le Japon du XXIe siècle. Il s’agit aussi d’intégrer d’autres approches : les urbanistes (architectes, géographes et sociologues) se retrouveront naturellement dans cet appel, mais une ouverture pluridisciplinaire est nécessaire pour traiter de cet objet aujourd’hui universel. Ainsi, en complément de contributions traitant des acteurs de l’urbain, des modes de vie, des formes et de la maîtrise de la ville, nous souhaiterions voir questionner, par exemple, la poétique des villes japonaises du XXIe siècle, l’esthétique qu’elles génèrent au cinéma ou dans les jeux-vidéos, ou encore la manière dont la littérature s’empare de la ville japonaise contemporaine
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Bangkok
Seminar - Ethnology, anthropology
Societies and environments in Southeast Asia
This seminar, gathering Western and Asian Scholars at Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), aims to discuss the relationship between Southeast Asian societies and their natural environments. The sociological approach explores the forms that connect social and cosmic orders within an hindo-buddhist context. We will consider contemporary socio-political challenges in regard to climate change, development practices and technical knowledge.
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